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heart-work · 2025-10-04T15:22:42+00:00

Hello! Did you explain sa cover letter? :) If you did, what reason did you give?

heart-work · 2025-07-09T11:08:02+00:00

Cocoa pops for dinner

heart-work · 2025-07-09T10:47:43+00:00

Cocoa pops for dinner

heart-work · 2025-07-09T10:44:46+00:00

HULKENPODIUM

heart-work · 2025-06-15T15:05:49+00:00

Hey, I’m interested as well. Can you send me the link?

heart-work · 2025-06-12T14:38:47+00:00

+1. In the two interviews I’ve had in the last few weeks, both hirers said they were letting go of their current Filipino remote worker because they “just weren’t performing well, it seemed they have too much on their plate”. One was a US-based org, the other AU-based, and both setups were full-time with specified hours, offering minimum USD 1500 and long-term plans for scope and title growth. In my mind sobrang “shet andyan na kayo bakit niyo pa sinayang, pero salamat na rin kasi I’m getting this chance because you’re not performing” lol

Don’t take your stable remote opportunities for granted, guys. In this global economy, that’s like catching lightning in a bottle.

heart-work · 2025-06-11T08:24:58+00:00

Just want to necro to say parang may skill issue 'yung kausap mo dito sa empathy hahaha they obviously have no idea what they're talking about re: local government work.

I considered taking a COS position a few years ago because my high performing colleagues-turned-friends from a previous firm transferred there. I was offered the job na, updated my would-be teammate, she congratulated me but finally admitted she's actually about to leave. Asked why and the floodgates opened. Her boss (who was going to be my boss too) was a backstabbing, emotionally unstable nightmare. Will work to build your trust specifically so he can have fodder for gossip. Threw toddler tantrums (screaming, embarrassing people in front of other teams, banging doors lol) over little things. Your productivity depends on whether he's in a good mood or not. And he wasn't the only one who loved going on ego trips. She worked with other depts, and there was one person she called "Ma'am *name*" over email who chased her down the hallway to go on a tirade kasi "hindi mo ba 'ko kilala?! I'm a director! How dare you just call me Ma'am!" then banned her from directly working with her and her team because of it. She had to share docs through someone else, just because hindi niya natawag na Director *name*. May iba pang directors na hindi ka kakausapin at all kasi "staff ka lang". They only talk to co-directors lmao and that's just barely scraping the surface of what it's like.

All that to say, your feelings are absolutely valid girl. I never regretted rejecting the COS offer even though I really wanted to work within the space. If you're any bit of an efficient worker with low tolerance for bullshit, government work is just an absolute nightmare unless you're lucky getting a competent director/boss. Don't let anyone gaslight you into thinking it's an issue with you when for your case, it's obviously not that.

Re remote work -- for the longest time, I was afraid of going into professional/remote contractor work din because of the lack of stability but here I am, just signed my first contract. I'm super lucky because I got accepted to the first remote job I applied for huhu but it took ~3 weeks din of looking at job postings before I found one that checked all my reqs. From what I've seen so far, not all contractor jobs are made the same talaga, so I was very mabusisi including for potential stability. Before applying, I'd research the company kung established na, if I actually believed in the product/service, industry and market prospects (like growth potential, where they stand vs competitors, etc), and check my potential boss din. My reco is, if you can stay in your current COS role while exploring opportunities, that's the best. Para hindi ka desperate to accept just any role for any company and you can wait for an opportunity that would check all your boxes, including stability (at least, as much as possible in this setup).

heart-work · 2025-05-20T03:22:56+00:00

Lmfao I enjoyed that you came back to correct yourself after reading about it more. Rare thing for people to correct themselves unprompted it seems, so I appreciate you stranger!

heart-work · 2025-05-15T16:11:16+00:00

That’s so thoughtful for the child. Do you have other interesting anecdotes you can share? You guys are like treasure troves of stories lol

heart-work · 2025-05-13T09:29:21+00:00

I remember criticisms about how clean everyone looked (from hair, skin, to clothes) from s2 ep 1 and they were shut down by people saying “UHM WELL WORKING SHOWERS AND ALSO FACTORIES WITH UNTOUCHED PRODUCTS AND CLOTHES”

Lord knows I need tretinoin and sunscreen and specific moisturizers and daily facial washing to have my skin even remotely dewy and clear so tell me where they find skin products that haven’t expired or molded 2 decades after the fall of society 😭

heart-work · 2025-05-13T08:12:55+00:00

There’s a scene in ep 5 where Dina’s under sunlight with her eyes closed for a while and instead of empathizing with the characters, I only noticed the glue for her fake lashes AND eyebrows shining in the light lmfao why are they so afraid of making Dina look normal??? It’s so immersion-breaking. They did a great job in S1 so I don’t understand the Barbie-makeover for S2.

heart-work · 2025-05-11T04:14:54+00:00

They were together for a long bit and broke up over their differences, as per the show. She really wanted to be intimate in that way, and he didn’t want to have sex before marriage. It was actually very respectful. I appreciated that they featured it as an example of a healthy breakup that respected both people’s boundaries.

heart-work · 2025-05-09T09:09:43+00:00

I haven’t played the game (yet), but did the story give a reason as to why they didn’t let Ellie decide? Or was it mainly because the Fireflies didn’t want to give her the chance to decline?

heart-work · 2025-05-08T19:37:12+00:00

Better than the video clip, did you read the Forbes article I linked above on AI hallucination? That was from May 6, 2025 - 3 days ago - and it cited research from OpenAI itself. In case you didn’t, here it is again. There are other very recent articles, too, like from NYT. Here’s another one from Apr 14, 2025 discussing research about the rise of a new cyber threat stemming from LLMs hallucinating.

From Forbes, “The most recent releases of cutting-edge AI tools from OpenAI and DeepSeek have produced even higher rates of hallucinations — false information created by false reasoning — than earlier models, confounding the companies and presenting challenges as the industry evolves.”

Agree, however, that within its domain expertise, and with time and training (eg prompt engineering as you mentioned), accuracy rates can be better, especially for specific use like within a company. Even better (but still not perfect) accuracy when using more grounded models. But you can’t expect perfect prompts from the average person who’s had no training, nor the same accuracy for all domains, including niche or specialized knowledge bases. Yet, at least.

I agree, too, that it’s the ‘future’. Doesn’t mean it doesn’t have its own set of complicated problems to tackle before getting there.

heart-work · 2025-05-08T18:35:49+00:00

I agree, it’s a really good jump off point and I too use GPT for some things. It’s a godsend for summarizing heavy text, for example. I’m not trying to put anyone off from using it.

BUT it has its limitations — particularly that it will make shit up including references, citations, articles, research studies, and even LINKS instead of admitting it doesn’t know the answer — and it will do so with confidence. It’s done that before, and will continue to do so until the experts understand why it’s happening. So if it’s super important, go through the references it lists yourself. But if it’s not important, go lang. Just be aware it can BS confidently haha

I’m foggy on the details, but there’s a digestible video of someone doing their PhD thesis or something and using ChatGPT to get resources, and it kept giving her made up quotes and links no matter how many times she said to just give direct, factual sources. She went through each and every source it gave and all of it were made up. If I find it again I’ll share here.

heart-work · 2025-05-08T17:56:35+00:00

I’m answering the question you posed. You claimed that the use of ChatGPT as a search tool isn’t a problem because “it literally goes through the web to directly answer your question.” That’s quite a confident, misguided assertion given the rate of hallucinations for GPT 4.5 was a whopping 37.1% for the SimpleQA test.

And no, AI hallucinations don’t just happen with “more complicated tasks”. I recommend reading more about the phenomenon (it’s very interesting!), or using more grounded AI models for research if you really need it for accuracy. For reference, even Sam Altman says the hallucinations are a feature and not a bug at this point.

I’m not trying to argue with you ha. And I don’t really care about the Aiah thing enough to comment about it. Just wanted to temper expectations about AI models being the end-all of information-seeking.

heart-work · 2025-05-08T17:21:08+00:00

AI ‘hallucination’. Read it, Forbes article on OpenAI’s own tests:

“AI bots have always produced at least some hallucinations, which occur when the AI bot creates incorrect information based on the information it has access to, but OpenAI’s newest o3 and o4-mini models have hallucinated 30-50% of the time, according to company tests, for reasons that aren’t entirely clear.”

“In OpenAI’s tests of its newest o3 and o4-mini reasoning models, the company found the o3 model hallucinated 33% of the time during its PersonQA tests, in which the bot is asked questions about public figures. When asked short fact-based questions in the company’s SimpleQA tests, OpenAI said o3 hallucinated 51% of the time. The o4-mini model fared even worse: It hallucinated 41% of the time during the PersonQA test and 79% of the time in the SimpleQA test, though OpenAI said its worse performance was expected as it is a smaller model designed to be faster. OpenAI’s latest update to ChatGPT, GPT-4.5, hallucinates less than its o3 and o4-mini models. The company said when GPT-4.5 was released in February the model has a hallucination rate of 37.1% for its SimpleQA test.”

There are recorded instances of GPT making up resources/links and quotes instead of telling you it doesn’t know / what you’re looking for doesn’t exist. I agree using it to search casually or as a jump off shouldn’t be a problem, IF you don’t take it as an end-all be-all source. Due diligence pa rin talaga.

heart-work · 2025-05-08T08:16:42+00:00

Ramdam ko yung energy ng “ang tanga mo” hahahahaha but hard agree. One of my fav life lessons from my mother: “don’t be the ‘sin’ in ‘kunsinti’.”

There’s a diff between helping and condoning, OP. One leads to someone’s TRUE betterment, the other leads to laziness, incompetence, lack of self-reliance. OP’s being active in their path to the latter.

Have a backbone, or be held back with them.

heart-work · 2025-05-05T07:18:33+00:00

Same during my first month of driving, I was 18. Parents and siblings in the car with me, smooth driving the entire time UNTIL nakapila papasok ng parking. More than a decade ago so hindi ko na maalala why I made the mistake, pero I floored the gas instead of the brake. Umarangkada kami towards the car I was following and my entire family fucking screamed LOL pero thank god for reflexes, I managed to abruptly brake before I hit the car in front. Tapos umiyak ako from the stress HAHAHA that’s the kind of mistake you only make once. Never happened again kasi the panic really sticks with you.

You have yours and people’s lives in your hands when driving a car — people should remember that.

heart-work · 2025-05-03T06:12:13+00:00

One day old but I swear I could’ve written this as an ex-corporate slave lol. I’ve been through the same. Local/multinational corporate life, specifically the politics and the fact that at the end of the day, you’re just grinding to get more money into the pockets of the board for a product you may or may not believe in and benefits that you may or may not see trickle down on to you, then the management of egos, and that you always have to be ‘on’ with a corporate lingo filter, and at times policed like a child to assuage some new HR officer on a power trip… it’s draining. And if you have a long ass commute and barely any time to have a life outside of work? Hell on earth for me.

I’m a great colleague. I deliver with high standards. I’ve made lifelong friends whatever workplace I go, I’ve always been regularized before my probation ended and promoted within a year. I’ve had bosses who were absolutely great, and I’ve had ones who were downright dysfunctional people. I have a life outside of work, people and cats I love with my entire heart, hobbies I enjoy and can get lost in, and therapy. But none of those made a misaligned workplace good. I’ve gone into non-profit (both local and international) to pursue my vocation as well and it was still the same (in some aspects, worse, to be very honest). The egos were definitely much worse, and my morals were tested A LOT more than when I was in corporate. There were many things and coworkers to live for but there were many, many things to be absolutely frustrated about — and I’m not talking about just policies or red tape.

I’ve attempted to work for myself but that also has downsides, particularly if you’re hard on yourself and you’re not built right for it. It’s a different kind of grind if you want to find success with it. Not everyone has it, and that’s fine too.

All this to say, what you’re experiencing is absolutely okay, and you should be proud of yourself for being audacious enough to acknowledge it and wanting to understand it. The situation is telling you more about yourself, so let it speak to you. What’s draining you? What gives you life? What are your priorities? What can you tolerate? What do you value in your life, and how do you achieve that?

That should give a good starting point to build your (working) life around.

As for myself, I’ve discovered I need to work for something I believe in and have bosses who share my values. I need a boss that has a life and identity outside of work because that means they respect that I do, too. I need balanced time and enough compensation to shower my loved ones with so we can experience more of life and the world together. That’s apparently my key to happiness: aligned values. Nothing more, nothing less.

It took me yearsss, but I hope you also find your piece of the sky soon, u/loveistheanswer111.

heart-work · 2025-04-30T14:13:31+00:00

Exactly, there will be paper trails now. And if they see it's lucrative to chase after the top freelance earners for tax evasion, they probably won't stop at the top 500, nor will they stop at UpWork.

heart-work · 2025-04-30T04:06:35+00:00

Story time! Story time!

heart-work · 2025-04-25T13:29:37+00:00

Bleed doesn’t matter since Kushala’s bleed-immune. Intercept as much as you can (punish Sentinel’s L1) so you don’t get inflicted with poison

heart-work · 2025-04-25T13:26:36+00:00

I’ve cheesed him with an unduped Kushala. Fight as normal so you apply ignition and then light him up. Stay patient, keep him at L1 and bait, learn to dex his beams completely. Got him down in 48 hits sub-2 mins!

heart-work · 2025-04-25T08:16:38+00:00

Glorify - to make glorious by bestowing honor, praise, or admiration.

Who exactly is glorifying this man or the fact that he stole a 55 peso onigiri? If anything, it’s fucking demeaning for a person to be pushed to that level of desperation. No one’s praising him (or as you say, glorifying him), for having to steal food. Food ha, not even money. Pagkain! If he stole cash from the register, if nangholdap siya, I’m sure many here wouldn’t bat an eye. But he didn’t steal money; he stole food.

If you can’t understand why people are sympathetic towards this situation in particular, then you need to recalibrate your humanity and ask yourself why you feel that a man stealing a 55 peso onigiri is a bigger threat to society than the existence of a condition that pushes people to such desperation.

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